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Join the HRC and the School of Education for a Curriculum Conversation with Dennis Williams, Research Associate at the University of Virginia.

About the Speaker

Dennis Williams II, Ph.D., is a research associate at the University of Virginia. In 2025, he earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at UVA, where he completed a three-manuscript dissertation, Racialized Academic Devaluation and the Prosocial Classroom, using state-of-the-art Bayesian multilevel modeling and Abolitionist and QuantCrit frameworks to examine how educator social-emotional competence buffers students' experiences of racialized academic discrimination. His scholarship and writing have been featured at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, the International Society for Contemplative Research, the Mind & Life Institute Summer Research Institute, and in such outlets as Educational Policy, Richmond Racial Equity Essays, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and the African American Review.